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and subject line Bug#407709: debian-installer: DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text : cannot chose language other than C/English
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Package: debian-installer
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Hello,
Using:
d-i daily build from 20-Jan-2007 09:57 netinst CD
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
with "install DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text", the first screen "Choose
language" shows only:
1. C - No localization
2. English - English [*]
and no more. It is for instance not possible to choose french. I'm not
shure if this is a bug but as all the supported languages are
available in the newt and GUI frontend, I guess it is. I didn't see
anything about that in the install manual.
On the next screen (country), it displays the 253 choices in one shot
without scrolling, so the choices are limited to the ~25 last countries.
Preseeding with "install DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text locale=fr_FR" is a
workaround.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-386
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:17, Emmanuel Halbwachs wrote:
> with "install DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text", the first screen "Choose
> language" shows only:
>
> 1. C - No localization
> 2. English - English [*]
This is expected and intentional with the text frontend. If you want to do
a localized installation, use the newt of gtk frontends.
Cheers,
FJP